Sports wire

Sunday

U.S. Open top seed Caroline Wozniacki won her third consecutive Pilot Pen title by beating Russian Nadia Petrova 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the final yesterday in New Haven, Conn.

Tennis

Top-seeded Wozniacki on roll heading into U.S. Open

U.S. Open top seed Caroline Wozniacki won her third consecutive Pilot Pen title by beating Russian Nadia Petrova 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the final yesterday in New Haven, Conn.

The victory capped a good week for the 20-year-old, who won in Montreal last Monday and heads to New York with four wins this season, the most of any player on tour.

• Roger Federer hired Paul Annacone as his coach.

Annacone, an American, is the former coach of Pete Sampras, Marat Safin and Tim Henman.

Little League World Series

Hawaii shuts out Texas, will face Japan in title game

Ezra Heleski struck out six and allowed two hits, and Kahoea Akau had three hits to lead Hawaii to a 10-0 victory over Texas to advance to the Little League World Series title game in South Williamsport, Pa.

Noah Shackles added a two-run homer to cap a four-run first inning as the team from Waipahu, Hawaii, took control early against a Pearland, Texas, squad that had hit a tournament-leading eight homers coming into the game.

Hawaii, seeking its second Little League title in three years, will face Japan for the championship today.

Elsewhere

Defending U.S. Amateur golf champion beaten in semifinal

Stanford's David Chung ousted defending U.S. Amateur champion Byeong-Hun An in a semifinal of the 110th championship in University Place, Wash.

Chung rallied from three down after nine holes to beat An 1 up with a par on the 485-yard 18th hole.

An was trying to become the first back-to-back champ since Tiger Woods won three straight from 1994 to '96.

In the other semifinal, Oklahoma State's Peter Uihlein won three holes in a five-hole stretch on the back nine to beat 18-year-old Patrick Cantlay 4 and 3.

MacArthur had 16 goals and 19 assists last season between the Buffalo Sabres and Atlanta Thrashers, who acquired him on March 3 in exchange for draft picks.

He scored a career-best 17 goals in the 2008-09 season while playing in 71 games for the Sabres.

• Anton Geesink , a member of the International Olympic Committee who won the first judo gold medal, died after several weeks in the hospital of an unspecified illness in his hometown of Utrecht, Netherlands. He was 76.

The 6-foot-6 Geesink stunned Japan by becoming the first Westerner to win the world judo championship in 1961 in Paris, then won his Olympic gold in 1964 in Tokyo.

- From wire reports

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